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Fly-Tying: An Essential Guide from One of the Greatest Instructors of All Time
FlyTying An Essential Guide from One of the Greatest Instructors of All Time Author:Helen Shaw No book has taught—or retaught—more serious fly tiers the basic skills of fly tying than Helen Shaw?s Fly-Tying. Shaw?s simple and logical prose throughout and more than 250 life-size tying sequences make the various processes easy to understand, follow, and apply. — Readers of Fly-Tying will learn every skill necessary to tie flies using many di... more »fferent materials, including:
Thread
Tinsel
Floss
Wool
Dubbing
Hair
Quill
Feathers
Introductory chapters teach aspiring fly tiers about the tools of the trade, while a chapter titled “The Finished Fly? explains how to use what they have created. Learning the various techniques one-by-one throughout the text will help fly tiers of all backgrounds and levels of expertise to tie hundreds of different patterns.
With a new color photo insert, foreword by David Klausmeyer, and note from Nick Lyons, a whole new generation of tiers will benefit from the reintroduction of this authoritative book more than fifty years after its original publication in 1963.« less